Just put progressives on my 2007 deluxe. ride quality is great but the bike is still not low enough. im about 1 inch away from the stop on the swing arm. my mechanic< who is great, said not to get to close to the stop. anyway, i really wanted to get low and tuck the whitewall into the fender. i know it can be done, ive seen it. what am i doing wrong?

 

Lets see some pics

 

I have Progressives on my train and this is as low as it would go in the rear.

 

Shotgun Shock will get you there. You can go low, and still have the ride feel like butter.

 

Two words...Air ride.




Drew

 

Drew that is a sweet looking scoot

 

Coming from an '06 Dyna here so bear with me. My experience has been the more I lowered the suspension, the harsher the ride became on any road surface the wasn't smooth. The lowered shocks had less suspension travel which required more preload to keep from bottoming out over bumps.

By comparison my '10 Heritage rides very well (slightly firm) on all road surfaces. Even the pothole infested roads in the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton area can't bottom this bike and the ride is always comfortable. I'm tempted to lower my Heritage but won't that reduce suspension travel and require more preload? That last thing my spine needs is a repeat of what happened when I lowered my Dyna.

 

I ride this low all day long and in comfort. Shotgun airride does it for me. I can even go lower and ride with no issues

 

With Air Ride you pump it up to ride and slam it when you park. Of course you can also ride it very low with a fair amount of suspension as well if you get a good one.

Drew

 

What joe297 says is my understanding. There's got to be a limited amout of rear wheel travel. If you use it all up slamming your bike, it's got to ride like a hardtail.

What Dr. V says makes sense, park it slammed, ride it pumped up. But Mr. Blk & Chrome, is it really that comfortable ridding the bike slammed?

Maybe you have to experience the air ride to become a believer, but they're way too $$$$ for me.

I put the 422s on mine, fully extended to slam the bike, but it rode like crap, so I backed it off to just a tad lower than stock. Ride is okay, but I felt I wasted my money on the shocks.

So my ?....If you lower the bike by an inch, do you loose an inch of travel, or is it not that simple. Say my bike had 4" of travel. Now I put the 422s on and lower my bike by 2". Do I still have the full 4" of travel?